Sentence examples for devastating punishment from inspiring English sources

The officer's moped will be seized for 10 days -- for a working man, a devastating punishment.

A more devastating punishment would be to cut Russia off from dollars, euros and sterling (see article).

However, Virginia Tech avoided the potentially devastating punishment of losing some or all of its $98m in federal student aid.

• To the Editor: The "automatic excommunication" of Sister Margaret McBride, who assented as a member of the Ethics Committee to an abortion at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, is a devastating punishment for a devout Catholic, more serious than the loss of her post as hospital vice president.

Mr. Spitzer, the crusading attorney general of New York, testified before a Senate panel about overhauling the mutual fund industry and warned that the punishments could be devastating.

An Ohio county chairman for the Republican Party provoked outrage after posting a Facebook message declaring that the fires devastating parts of California are "God's punishment" for the "liberal" state.

It is obviously devastating to the woman facing a jarringly disproportionate punishment for the crime she committed, but it is also much more than that.

"We had corporeal punishment in schools when I was a child, and it wasn't devastating".

Quietly devastating.

Devastating, even.

Just devastating.